On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:17:25 -0800 (PST), hinnc@xxxxxx wrote:
Quote:
>I had an issue with one of my disk drives this past weekend and ended
>up re-installing Vista. My system has two drives; one that I use as
>the system drive and the other is used for data backup. Well the re-
>install went fairly well but when I tried to do a complete image
>backup my data drive today, the one that has the drive letter D:
>assigned to it, it was not listed as a valid backup device. Further
>investigation revealed that somehow the D: drive which contains only
>data and not the operating system is the system partition. The C:
>drive where all of Vista's files reside is the boot partition.
>Normally, on non-dual boot systems the boot and system partitions
>reside on the same physical partition, (and the same physical disk
>drive). The D: drive was unavailable to use as an image backup drive
>because it has the system information on it.
>
>My question: is there a way to make the C: drive the system partition
>withput a complete reinstallation? I looked all over the web and at
>BCDEdit.exe, DiskPart.exe, and BootEdit.exe and none of those appear
>to be a fix. Anyone have any ideas? Other than that it all works
>fine.
1. You have to make the C: drive bootable. VistaBootPro might be able
do this for you.
2. You have to set your motherboard bios to boot from the disk
containing the C: drive.
Quote:
>
>More info below:
>
>DISKPART> list volume
>
> Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status
>Info
> ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- ---------
>--------
> Volume 0 I Removable 0 B No Media
> Volume 1 E Removable 0 B No Media
> Volume 2 G Removable 0 B No Media
> Volume 3 C NTFS Partition 295 GB Healthy
>Boot <-----------------
> Volume 4 K Removable 0 B No Media
> Volume 5 D NTFS Partition 298 GB Healthy
>System <--------------
> Volume 6 J Removable 0 B No Media
> Volume 7 F DVD-ROM 0 B No Media
> Volume 8 H Removable 0 B No Media
> Volume 9 L Removable 0 B No Media
>
>
>C:\Windows\system32>bcdedit
>
>Windows Boot Manager
>--------------------
>identifier {bootmgr}
>device partition=D:
><--------------------------------------------
>description Windows Boot Manager
>locale en-US
>inherit {globalsettings}
>default {current}
>resumeobject {01d9d5d0-9003-11dc-9e1b-f05eb17f0115}
>displayorder {current}
>toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
>timeout 30
>
>Windows Boot Loader
>-------------------
>identifier {current}
>device partition=C:
><--------------------------------------------
>path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
>description Microsoft Windows Vista
>locale en-US
>inherit {bootloadersettings}
>osdevice partition=C:
>systemroot \Windows
>resumeobject {01d9d5d0-9003-11dc-9e1b-f05eb17f0115}
>nx OptIn